1851 in Norway
Events in the year 1851 in Norway.Incumbents
Arts and literature
January to June
- 2 January – Haldor Boen, teacher and politician in America
- 25 January – Arne Garborg, writer
- 28 January – Andreas Aubert, art historian
- 11 June – Oscar Borg, composer
July to December
- 23 July – Peder Severin Krøyer, painter
- 20 August – Abraham Berge, politician and Minister
- 23 September – Ola Thommessen, newspaper editor
- 2 October – Elias Sunde, politician and Minister.
- 30 October – Leonhard Hess Stejneger, zoologist
- 10 November – Waldemar Christofer Brøgger, geologist and mineralogist
- 25 November – Hans Andersen Foss, author, newspaper editor and temperance leader in America
Full date unknown
- Gunvald Aus, engineer
- Peter W. K. Bøckman, Sr., bishop and theologian
- Nicolai A. Grevstad, diplomat, politician and newspaper editor in America
- Knut Eriksson Helland, Hardanger fiddle maker
- Herman Jeremiassen, ship-owner and politician
- Carl Sofus Lumholtz, discoverer and ethnographer
- Olaj Olsen, jurist and politician
- August Geelmuyden Spørck, politician and Minister
- Oscar Sigvald Julius Strugstad, politician and Minister
- Aasmund Halvorsen Vinje, politician and Minister
Deaths
- 5 July – Olaus Michael Schmidt, judge and politician
Full date unknown
- Palle Rømer Fleischer, politician and Minister
- Hilmar Meincke Krohg, politician
